Originally, the theater featured a mix of vaudeville and silent movies. The famous local musician, Hoagy Carmichael, played at the Indiana. It is served by the Sunrise Box Office.

In 1975, the Vonderschmitt family sold the Indiana to Kerasotes Theatres. They enclosed the upper balcony in order to install a second screen. In December 1995, Kerasotes gave the theater to the Bloomington Area Arts Council, who then restored it and reopened it in 1999 as the Buskirk-Chumley.